12. What's Jazz Got To Do With It?

This is not legal advice. Leave audio feedback at (512) 686-6329. This show was recorded and edited using GNU/Linux.

Expected Audience: People interested in Jazz and the Law




mp3 audio | ogg audio | torrent

This week on the Lawcast we have something a little bit different. If you want to hear more from Robert, check out The Jazzcast After Party or you can check out when Tom and I had him on the main Music Manumit show. Thanks, as always on the Jazzcast, to Ryno for twiddling the knobs!

The reason it took so long to get this out is that I had to go back and put in some of the tracks because one of the channels dropped out late in the show. I didn't go back and fix the audio when Robert and I were talking because I thought it would take too long, but I didn't think it was fair to the musicians for you not to hear both of their channels, in case they had anything recorded in stereo.

I regret not getting this out sooner, because I think this might be the format of the future. We'll see if I am even able to do the Lawcast next summer. Brian and I discussed a bit about the future of the Lawcast on the last episode, but I go into a bit more detail in the most recent OpenSourcePlayground.org article.

11. Brian Clark Discusses UNH and His Role at the Lawcast

This is not legal advice. Leave audio feedback at (512) 686-6329. This show was recorded and edited using GNU/Linux.

Expected Audience: Legal Recruiters, Prospective Law Students and UNH/FPLC Alums

mp3 audio | ogg audio | torrent | unedited video

Part of the reason I wanted to do this series is because I see other schools with podcasts (American, Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Virginia, etc.)

Brian has written 8 articles for the Lawcast.

Why don’t you tell us a little about yourself?

political science major in college

What are your plans this upcoming semester for the Lawcast?

part-time externship

Writing for Practice

Admin Pro

Copyright registration takes a while!

Have you thought about whether you’ll stick with the Lawcast after graduation?

Figure it out as you go!

What are some of your longterm goals in the law?

Stay in NH!

Start practicing business litigation and that may take him in into trademarks

public sector first

More specifically, what have you been up to this summer?

Clinic calls, intake interviews

Legal clinic doesn’t do divorces

technology transfer

What do you think of Mary leaving UNH?

Brian was surprised.

Maybe school is trying to branch out a little more.

What do you think of Sports Law as part of IP?

The correct name is the Sports and Entertainment Law Center.

  hard to talk about as much because no Title.

Just very complicated!

compared 

I cut out a bit about patents after the discussion about sports law, so if you want to hear a bit more about patents, you'll have to watch the unedited video.

With Life of a Law Student no longer in existence, where do you think is the best place to go for free additional legal materials?

some blogs: not a single source

10. Jessica Coates, Creative Commons Global Network Manager

This is not legal advice. Leave audio feedback at (512) 686-6329. This show was recorded and edited using GNU/Linux.

Expected Audience: Those interested in CC 4.0.

mp3 audio | ogg audio | torrent | unedited video

I apologize for the echo on my audio. It didn't happen at the beginning of the recording, so I thought maybe it would stop, but it never did once it started. If you watch the video, you'll notice that Jessica isn't wearing headphones, so let that be a lesson to all you would-be podcasters...always wear headphones while producing a show!

On the other hand, at least this time Google didn't decide to cut out Doug's audio while he was typing...because Doug didn't type. That means the show notes aren't that great. If you'd like better show notes in the future, please make sure you donate. Donations are sure to get my attention. Also, I'm always interested in getting additional volunteers to help out with writing, editing and promoting the Lawcast, so just let me know if you'd be willing to put in the time to make great show notes.

Alright, onward...

Here's the show Tom and I did with Jessica back in December. Before that, and actually, before Music Manumit existed, CC came out with the 3.0 license in 2007.

Big things:

• They've made the language more "plain English"
• No more porting (well, there will be some)

There are still some countries that have not signed Berne (though TRIPS incorporates "almost all" of Berne): Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Cambodia, East Timor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Kiribati, Kuwait, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu and Uganda.

If you want to get involved int he 4.0 process, the best way to do so at this point is to check out the wiki and get involved in translation.

Get in Touch

Music Manumit Last.fm group
My Last.fm username: DouglasAWh.
Libre.fm username: douglasawh.
280.status.net: douglasawh
I'm on too many social networks to list them all!

Donate

Flattr

Help Doug get through law school! Buy him a book or food!

Contract Law

This is not legal advice. Leave audio feedback at (512) 686-6329.

So, it seems that my snippets go back further than last semester. I took Contract Law my first semester in law school (as most people do). Anyway, as I recently mentioned over at OSP, there may be a book coming. I want to get as much of this out there so people can help piece together what should be in the book. Obviously, some of these need work, but the community isn't going to be able to help put the book together unless they know what has already been written. So, just like the last post, this is one of those as-is posts. I hope you can gain something from it.

This is the first of a two-part series. The other post will be on the sale of goods, which will apply to merchandise sales. Today will focus on contracts for services. A performance, a "gig", is a service.

Let me first say that Tort Law and Constitutional Law have been my best grades in law school, so if anyone has suggestions to improve this article, I am open to suggestions! Let me also say that that should be a warning to you if you are attempting to make this legal advice. This is not legal advice.

Contracts are generally a matter of state law, but the US Constitution does address contracts in Article 1, §10. "No State shall...pass any...Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts." From the Constitutional side of things, there are other property rights, but that's not particularly important.
From the copyright side of things, note that you can sign away pretty much everything in the US context.

Many people think a contract must be in writing for it to be enforceable. While there are exceptions (there always are!), ORAL CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES ARE ENFORCEABLE.

RESOURCES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract

CASES

Righthaven v. Democratic Underground

OTHER PODCASTS

A couple pages worth at The Legal Talk Network (none deal directly with gigs or copyright)

Current Issues: Week 5 - Product Development & Private-Public Partnerships (PPP)

This is not legal advice. Leave audio feedback at (512) 686-6329.

Last semester I took a course called Current Issues in International IP. I thought perhaps I'd clean up some of these posts over the course of the summer, but with the summer drawing to a close, I figured I'd either delete the titles or release what I had written as is. This is one of those as-is posts. I hope you can gain something from it.

Technically, this week we are primarily talking about patents in the Current Issues course. Specifically, we read "A Typology of Intellectual Property Management for Public Health Innovation and Access: Design Considerations for Policymakers" by Antony Taubman. I think the private-public partnerships are worth exploring in music as well, and indeed the paper passingly mentions copyright a few times.

Probably the most obvious Private-Public Partnership (PPP) in music is that of music education. People will quibble whether in the US we really have much "public" in music education, at least from a financial point of view. Let me first say, that despite my parents both being music educators (one public, one private), I think math and science education is vastly more important than arts education (that said, studies have shown music improves math skills). Humans innately express themselves. Humans do not innately understand differential equations or the Heisenberg principle. Of course, this week is not about education policy, we already had that discussion and will again when I post my mid-term paper on the subject.

There are, of course, other PPPs in music and some of them are subtle. For example, many arts organizations are 501(c)(3)s and while this is not direct financial stimulus, the tax incentives certainly help promote the arts. Charitable organizations are a particularly interesting application of the "market economy." While the market apparently prefers Justin Bieber (who was #1 on Billboard when I started writing this post), the government allows a separate (not secondary) market for charitable arts organizations.

Of course, the government also "competes" in this market with the various military bands, but charities, such as the Netizen Empowerment Federation, fulfill roles in the US that governments provide in other countries, such as education and arts. I am not an economist and thus I am not going to speak about the market aspects, specifically.

Get in Touch

Music Manumit Last.fm group
My Last.fm username: DouglasAWh.
Libre.fm username: douglasawh.
280.status.net: douglasawh
I'm on too many social networks to list them all!

Donate

Flattr

Help Doug get through law school! Buy him a book or food!